An Equilibrium Strategy for Mobile Users in a Hybrid Access Network
Mobile users usually access Internet via a hybrid network,in which cellular and Wi-Fi are alternatively available.Regarding the hybrid network as a two-phase type server in which the packets are sent by mobile users as customers,we establish a fully observable continuous time Markovian queue.A mobile user decides to send or not to send a packet according to the number of packets already in the system and the phase type of the server.Through iterations and diagonalization,we get the analytical expression for the expected sojourn time of a newly arriving packet.In addition,we investigate the monotonicity of the expected sojourn time and prove the existence of equilibrium thresholds.Finally,we provide numerical results to analyze the equilibrium strategy of mobile users in a hybrid access network.
Hybrid access network Fully observable queueing system Expected sojourn time Equilibrium threshold
Dongmei Zhao Shunfu Jin Wuyi Yue
School of Information Science and Engineering Yanshan University,Qinhuangdao 066004,China;Mathematic School of Information Science and EngineeringYanshan University,Qinhuangdao 066004,China Department of Intelligence and Informatics Konan University,Kobe 658-8501,Japan
国际会议
河北秦皇岛
英文
172-175
2017-08-21（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）